Flash :: Slider/following Line

Slider Won't Stay On The Line
i need help~ i attach the file so please have a look.

what im doin is using the slider to control the mc but the thing is that i an't make the slider knob stay in its box, and that the knob didnt contrrol the mc till its halfway drag.

anyone.. please help me~
anyway im using mx 2004.

thanks in advance

Increasing The Legnth Of A Line Using A Slider
HI there,

I've created a slider which moves left to right. Basically what i'm trying to do is when i move the slider a line beneath it grows or shortens in relation to the slider.

Can anyone help me here/

cheers
lee

Slider That Affects Values And A Line On A Chart
Hi can anyone point in the direction of a tutorial that will show me how to make the following please.

I can use flash, but not sure how to go about linking the slider to the values that change directly and to the line on the graph

http://www.tutor2u.net/assets/simula...imulator_1.swf

Click Slider Line And Jump Bar To That Position.
I have a slider:

http://miniuzi.net/testSlider.fla

I can not figure out how to make the slider bar jump to the clicked position. It works when it is dragged, but I would like to know how to make it work when dragged or clicked anywhere along the line.

Any help would be appreciated.

Matt

Slider To Scroll Thumbnail Mc W/ Buttons Inside...onRollover Text Moves With Slider
I'm using a slider to scroll a movieclip made up of thumbnail images that are buttons. When I put my mouse over each button, I want it the image to change from black and white to color, and for a text description to appear in one fixed location on the main stage. Right now the image change to color is working, and the text appears as well, BUT the text scrolls as well, since it's within the scrolling movieclip. I want the text to appear static at a fixed location of: x=-947 and y=65. HELP!!!

It should look similar to: http://www.ehdd.com

Here's my code:

for my movieclip:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.scrollMC._x = -.295*(_root.slider.b);
}

for my slider (set to scroll along "path"):
on (press) {
startDrag(this, false, 4, 270, 802,270);
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
stopDrag ();
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
a = new Object();
a.y = this._y;
a.x = this._x;
_root.path.globalToLocal (a);
b = int(a.x*2);
}

Slider In Reverse - Typed Text Makes Slider Move...help?
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/slider.htm

Great tutorial...thanks by the way

But I was just wondering if anyone knew how you would go about doing this kinda in reverse? In that you type the percentage number in the text box and the slider moves up to that number?

Thanks in advance for your help

Slider Menu - Resize Slider And Change Btn Color
Hi there,

I am using code from http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...ith_slider.htm. and
I found how to make slider smaller or bigger in this forum but I don't know what wrong of my buttons. The width of the slider is not same as all buttons. It looks smaller and on the right more.

Actually, I would like to make the same slider menu at <A href="http://www.grouplotus.com/grp/">http://www.grouplotus.com/grp/. Their buttons can change color even mouse out. Could you or someone else can teach me how to do that?

my flash file
http://www.halfuncorner.com/flash/btn.swf
http://www.halfuncorner.com/flash/btn.fla

many thanks,
jo

Fade Slider Not Image Slider HELLLP
i am trying to bulind a slider to fade btween 3 image Image 1(Past0, Image 2 (Present), Imag2 3 (Futher)
info
Image 1 is Constant as it is the base layer
Image 2 is Variable inatly set at 100% Alpher (middle LAYER)
Image 3 is Variable inatly set at 0% Alpher (top LAYER)

i want the slider to star off in the middle posing an image 2 100% and image 3 is 0% and when the slider moves left Image 2 alper will go down revlling image 1, and when the slider moves right i want Image 2 to remain a 100% and image 3 to go from 0% to 100%

can any on help

thanks blue

Slider Wont Work For My Menu Slider
i tried following this tut on a menu slider http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...th_slider2.htm, but I cant seem to get the slider to work, whenever I test the movie the slider just slides to the left corner and than doesnt move after that. anyone know what is going on or have any advice??

i posted my swf file to show you and then the fla file if anyone actually wants to see everything.

Im kinda new to flash so I obviously dont know what is wrong. Any help would be very appreciated.

Slider Menu - Resize Slider And Btn Color
Hi there,

I am using code from http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...ith_slider.htm. and
I found how to make slider smaller or bigger in this forum but I don't know what wrong of my buttons. The width of the slider is not same as all buttons. It looks smaller and on the right more.

Actually, I would like to make the same slider menu at <A href="http://www.grouplotus.com/grp/">http://www.grouplotus.com/grp/. Their buttons can change color even mouse out. Could you or someone else can teach me how to do that?

my flash file
http://www.halfuncorner.com/flash/btn.swf
http://www.halfuncorner.com/flash/btn.fla

many thanks,
jo

Volume Slider -- How Do I Center Slider?
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/volume_slider.htm

Using the tutorial above, the volume slider always starts at the left end which is starting to become annoying because you always have to move it in order to listen.

How can I place it in the center? I've attempted just dragging it in the middle while editing, but the file ends up not working.

[MX04] Dynamically Created Textbox Won't Go To Next Line When Text Exceeds First Line
Hey all,

I've dynamically created a textbox and then applied a new text format with the following code:

Code:
{
createTextField('welcome',4,-100,-25,160,100);

welc = new TextFormat()
welc.font = "Sydnie";
welc.selectable = false;
welc.size = 12;
welc.color = 0xfffafa;
welc.multiline = true;

welcome.text ="Text that exceeds one line."
blackbox.welcome.setTextFormat(welc);
}
How do I make the textbox go to the next line when the first is full and not go beyond it's right border?

Thanks for your time,
Greenham.

Attach A Line To Two Movie Clips. So The Line Moves And Adjusts To The Positionning
Hey

ok I'm working on a project, I have two movie clips moving to different locations, and I want a line connecting both clips.

The line will need to adjust dynamically to the mouvement of both clips.

Can someone give me a heads up on how to accomplish such task.

If more information is needed, post areply saying so, and I will add more information about what I am trying to accomplish.

Thanks
Jean

[F8]Text/Paragraph/String - Line By Line Write Effect
howdy - ive seen some nice text effects recently, and im looking for some resource on recreating them. Ideally im after a nice function / prototype for outputting a line of dynamic text, to a textfield in a nice way, rather than just dumping it on screen. So either letter by letter, or line by line, without having to do all the rubbish faux-effects by masking and tweening.

any ideas?

cheers.

Reading Textfield Line By Line ? Selecting Multiple Textfields At Once ?
OK i need some serious help/advice !

I`m trying to make a sort of program like word , i want to have a text field , but the problem comes when i want to create like borders around each line of text and have DIFFERENT background colors for each line.
So i was thinking if i can read line by line and get get the height of each line by examining char by char for it's size and get the biggest one ( since my text may have different fonts sizes ect on a single line) and then have like BLOCKS that are behind each line and adjust their sizes accoring to the line size and change their color also.

Also another thing that I would also want to do , i want to create a table which i did , but now how do i put the table into my text ...and not just lie on top blocking text behind it ..how do i like "push" the text around it ?? ANY IDEAS would help...thats why i thought maybe create lots of textfields just stacked from top to bottom..but then i will have the problem of selecting them all at once like in a REAL word processing problem...and also if the text becomes too big it will need to "flow" into next textfield...

Is there ANYWAY to do this ??! HELP ME!!!!

THANK YOU

Multi-line Text Field Auto Line Break
When a Dynamic Multiple line text field is used in Flash CS3, it has a very annoying feature that auto inserts a line break at the end of inserted text. It also auto inserts a line break if no text is entered too.

I'm having a problem with this because the text is being saved from flash to a text file on the desktop. With every multi-line text field there's a nasty looking line break.

Any way of "turning off" this auto-line-break-at-the-end feature?

Txt File Double Spacing Off Line, Single On Line
Has anyone else seen this?

When I'm setting up a .txt file for import (the swf is v5 code, authored in MX), I'm noticing that if the .txt file has a single line break between paragraphs, this represents as a single empty line when the swf file is viewed on-line, but it shows as a double blank line when the same file is opened off-line.

Does anyone know a trick to getting imported txt files to display the same way on- and off-line?

(Or am I going mad and no one else has noticed this...)

Flash Getting PHP To Feed It A Text File Line By Line
Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I want Flash to access the text file, separated my newlines, that can get quite large. I want Flash to access each of those lines one by one and process them with Actionscript.

I am getting the idea that I should use PHP to open the text file and store the lines in an array. But how can I access each array element in Flash?

Does anyone have any suggestions about this? Have you seen where this has been done before?

Is It Possible To Get Data Printed To The Screen Line By Line As A Ping Does?
I have a Flash web app using AMFPHP remoting that calls a unix script that runs either a ping or a traceroute command based on some parameters I pass it.

The methods in my remoting method table for ping and traceroute are:

PHP Code:

function doLsPing($addr)
{
    $ping = shell_exec("/path/to/my/pingScript.sh " . $addr);
    return $ping;
}

function doLsTraceroute ($addr)
{
    $traceroute = shell_exec("/path/to/my/tracerouteScript.sh " . $addr);
    return $traceroute;
}

The unfortunate behavior I am getting is that the returns, naturally, just send me the completed data from the ping and traceroute in one big lump. Of course I would like to have the data returning to me line by line as the data is collected...like it would if you ran the script in a shell or terminal window.

You can see the danger in getting the one-big-lump-of-data scenario. If you ran a traceroute on an address that did not exist and say the traceroute did 30 hops then you could potentially be waiting a loooooooong time without anything printing to the screen. Plus the user, if familiar with ping and traceroute, would be expecting to see the results printing to the screen line by line as the command ran.

Now the caveat to this is, my PHP skills are nil to none, so maybe I am just missing something that I could use rather than just a 'return'.

Any help here would be most appreciated!

Make Line Movieclip Turn To Dotted Line
hey Everyone

Just wanting to know how to use actionscript to make a line dotted. I want to have a movieclip (a solid line) and when u click on it it will become a dotted line, then be able to switch it back to solid with another click.

Cheers

Reading Data From Text File Line By Line
I want to read some data from a text file into arrays.
In the text file, I have:

data = 1234567890

This works ok, but I want the text format in the text file to be:

data =
12345
67890

So after reading 'data', i will have 2 arrays.
[1,2,3,4,5] and [6,7,8,9,0]

Any idea how to go about doing this?
It will be even better if I dont need to use any variable.
Like this:

12345
67890

The main thing is just to read the text line by line and get them into arrays.
Thanks.

Line Break Or Line Feed For Dynamic Text
I am usin a textArea so now it is different than the last post about styles.
This text is dynamic and is assigned from within the Flash file it resides.
It comes from a list selection listener and I want to pre-format it with line breaks.

Since it resides in the file I will be using a textArea with HTML on to get the line breaks.
But now I can't Style it the same way with the setStyle methos

Currently I have one line is like this.

myNotes.text = "This is Line one<br>This is another Line<br>and another line";

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
WBell

Edited: 01/24/2009 at 12:49:08 AM by W_Bell

Two Objects Conected By A Dinamic Line + Physics Of The Line
Hi

I have two Movie clips, and I have to conect them with a dinamic line, like a rope. The movie clip A will be interactive with the mouse, changing X and Y positions, so the line should act like a rope.

Does anybody knows some code to do that or have a example?

Reading A Text File, Line By Line
I am using loadVar to read in a text file for processing by Actionscript.
Is it possible to just read in a portion of it (instead of the whole thing), process it and then read in some more? Specifically, can one read in up until a linefeed?

Multi-line Text Box Line Break?
I am trying to make a multiline text box do a line break. a quick example:

You run into a tree.
You found something!
It glows with a blue aura.

It is just for a simple break, if I try to do it normally, it ends up like this:

You run into a tree. You found something! It glows with a blue aura.

without a line break. Can someone please tell me what the line break command is?

Reading Text File Line By Line
Hy all

Got the following code:

Code:
var strContent:String;
function fillContent(folder:String):void
{
var arrayMenuItems:Array = new Array();
var arrayContent:Array = new Array();
var arrayNews:Array = new Array();
var myContent:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myContent.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
myContent.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, getString);
myContent.load(new URLRequest("content/" + folder + "/_content.php"));
contentText.multiline = true;
trace("./content/" + folder + "/_content.php");
trace("MY DATA: " + myContent.data);
contentText.htmlText = strContent;
contentText.setTextFormat(format_ContentRegularText);
contentTitle.setTextFormat(format_Titles);
menuItemFont.setTextFormat(format_MenuItems);
}

function getString(e:Event):void
{
strContent = e.target.data;
}
What I actually need is to be able to read the _content.php file line by line. I'd like to store each line of the text file in an array (arrayContent). But I haven't found ANY solutions yet for this problem.

Best thanks for trying to help

Regards

Read External Txt File Line By Line...
Hi guys i am currently rushing a project on flash.
i did the project in java, C++ as well as tcl/tk
now i am doing it for actionscript.

i needed help on:
-read external text file which contains coordinates
Eg:
123,321
34,43
233,785
745,3

-i need the action script to read these coordinates and store them in an array. can anybody help me out pls.

Draw A Line Using LineTo Then Hit Test That Line
is there a way to hitTest a line drawn with the following method?

Code:
clear();
lineStyle(1, 0, 100);
moveTo(obj1._x, obj1._y);
lineTo(obj2._x, obj2._y);

perhaps turn it into a movie clip and hitTest that?

...I'm stumped here...

Read Line By Line In External Txt File?
I found the answer to this problem somewhere on these forums, and I've searched and searched, but I can't seem to find it again. =( Google has let me down as well.

The person wanted to know if there was a way to read in each line separately from an external txt file without using the crazy syntax, but the person who replied said that you could just make all the text one variable, and then break it up by newlines inside the AS code using a for loop.

Whoever can find that topic for me or figure out what methods are needed for it will be my hero. =)

Is Actionscript Processed Sequential (line By Line)?
Ok, so long story short, I have a loop that fills three different arrays. As soon as the loop finishes, on the next line, a function is called that loads dynamic images into movie clips. However, this isn't working as I thought. Instead, the function is being called at the same time as the loop is running. Therefor, the first few images don't show up and I get undefined errors. However, if I delay the function being called by 50ms, I don't get the error. This means that it is a timing problem and that flash is executing the loop and the function call at the same time.

Does anybody have any experience/advice on what or why this might be happening?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Also, my entire movie is implemented using actionscript in the first frame of the movie.

Edited: 07/18/2007 at 02:27:48 PM by nateyboy044

API-draw: Check If Line Intersects Another Line
It been a while and I need some help on this one...

I'm making a very simple game that lets you draw a curve by hand (using lineTo to the mouse position on mousemove) but now, I need to check wether the line intersects wiith another part of the same line (e.g. a loop)

I first used an onrollover command, and that worked, but not always because the mouse moved too fast (same with hittest with mouse). Then I pre-drawed the line in another mc, used hittest on it, and if it wasn't intersecting, draw it in the real mc. But that didn't work because it used the bounds to test. I guess the best way is to use some mathematical formula, but that would mean I have to save all my coordinates in an array...

Is there another way?

TIA

Read Text File Line By Line
Hy all

Got the following code:

Code:
var strContent:String;
function fillContent(folder:String):void
{
var arrayMenuItems:Array = new Array();
var arrayContent:Array = new Array();
var arrayNews:Array = new Array();
var myContent:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
myContent.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
myContent.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, getString);
myContent.load(new URLRequest("content/" + folder + "/_content.php"));
contentText.multiline = true;
trace("./content/" + folder + "/_content.php");
trace("MY DATA: " + myContent.data);
contentText.htmlText = strContent;
contentText.setTextFormat(format_ContentRegularText);
contentTitle.setTextFormat(format_Titles);
menuItemFont.setTextFormat(format_MenuItems);
}

function getString(e:Event):void
{
strContent = e.target.data;
}
What I actually need is to be able to read the _content.php file line by line. I'd like to store each line of the text file in an array (arrayContent). But I haven't found ANY solutions yet for this problem.

Best thanks for trying to help

Regards

Slider Stop Outside Slider ( Hm...?)
hi,

please help....or give me some tips...

i work with flash mx and have a problem with my slider

i want the slider to stop when my mouse leaves the slider...

if possible also when i click on a button.

greetings

rancune

sliderproblem.fla

Reading Code Line By Line?
Guys (and girls) im trying to write a bit of code which appears to shake an image on screen, however when i put all my _x &_y functions in to move it around it reads the whole block in one, instead of reading and DISPLAYING each line seperately... how do i force code to do it (in director Id use an 'updatestage' command) many thanks

[F8] Line Vs Line Collision Detection?
Anyone know how i can do line vs line collision detection? Using hitTest() isn't good enough as my lines are all at weird angles. I think vectors might be the solution, but i can't get tonypa's tutorials to work, any hints? Thanks,

Aldarn.

[F8] Delecting How Many Characters There Is Line By Line
ok cos no ones answering my other question
here I have to think of an alternative solution

can someone tell me is there a way to read through a textbox line by line and get how many characters there are in each line?

Line Rider Style Line
How can i do this, i would like the same usability as linerider where teh oencil tool ca be picked up or put down, and where the pencil tool foolows the cursor all the while the pencil tool is selected, please help!

Text Effects Line By Line
Hi,

How can I make the text of my website to appear line by line, each line changing it´s alpha to appear.

If the line make a small movement would be better. Something like falling from 10 pixels...

Something like this effect, but with the lines of the text instead of the letters...

thanks

Line-by-Line Text Effect
Hi,
I'm a newbie to this forum, but I'm hoping someone will know how to do the effect on this site -- www.outsellconsulting.com

The effect is in most of the sections (if you click on the left nav) --- the text slides in line-by-line. I don't think it's done with Swish, for example, but I could be wrong.

If anyone has any ideas on this, I'd appreciate it.

Draw A Line Through A Path Line
Hail,
Does anyone knows how I draw a line through a path line?
An example I have a movieClip that is a pencil and it is moving through a path line, now I want to draw the line that the pencil draw. Confused?

Read Line By Line From .txt File In AS 3.0
Hi,

I'm wondering how I can read from a .txt file in actionscript 3.0. I'm used to Java where when I want to read from a file I would do something like this.

Code:
Scanner scan = new Scanner(url.openStream());
String line;

while (scan.hasNextLine())
{
line = scan.nextLine();
//do something with that line
}
Is there something similar in Actionscript where I can read a file line by line?

icekube12jr

Loading Text Line By Line..?
Hi all, been using flash for a while to do linear animations for my sites but this one involves some simple actionscript and I'd like to know the best way to achieve the following please:

Basically I have a variable which will count from x to x and I need it to "reveal" a line of text when the counter gets to specific numbers.
For example; counter reaches 50 and I want the line "counter at fifty" to be added to a text box.

I'd like this text box to actually scroll too when the text begins to go off the bottom of the screen.

Now I've tried doing this with an animated mask, which moves down a line at a time when it reaches the specified variable counter number. But this does not allow me to move the text up easily when it begins to overflow the stage.

I figure that the way it is likely to be done is to load up the lines into an array and then use a loop to unhide the lines when the conditions are met. But I can't figure it out! Been trying for about 2 days now :P

Thanks very much for any help!

Flash Drawing Board With Erase Function, Erase Line By Line
Hello!

Im building a pretty simple drawing board in flash, i got this code from this forum and it works fine (there is more to it but this is the drawing part)

Code:

var clip:Shape = new Shape();

bana.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,_handleMouseEvent);
bana.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,_handleMouseEvent);

function _handleMouseEvent(e:MouseEvent):void{
switch(String(e.type)){
   case "mouseDown":
   bana.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, _handleMouseEvent);

   bana.addChild(clip);

   clip.graphics.lineStyle(1.5,colorPicker.selectedColor);
   clip.graphics.moveTo(mouseX,mouseY);

   break;

   case "mouseUp":
   bana.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, _handleMouseEvent);
   break;

   case "mouseMove":
   clip.graphics.lineTo(mouseX,mouseY);

}
}

This works fine. But i want to be able to erase the drawings, step by step this is ths tricky part, ive looked everywhere(ok not everywhere) but in a whole lot of places but the only thing i found is how i could delete everything with removeChild and that in not what i want.

Maybe i need to change the function abowe? Please help me to get in the right direction. What should i read about /look at?
Do you have som sample code, no one is happier than me.

Regards
Fredrik
(sorry for my bad english, please ask if you dont understand)

[MX04] Diagonal Line Hit Test Or Drawn Line Hit Test
i have this guy who maves around and you can draw i gave it an instance name of "linesd" i dunno and i want to make it so the square will not go through the line that i draw in the swf. if you cant help with that can you help me with diagonal line hitTest i ban do vertical and horozontal ut diagonal is realy hard because it does the hitTest for the movie clip box not the line itself
-jakeA

Y=m*x+b ( Line-line Collisions )
Hey Flashkit!!!

I am currently reading a book on Flash MX game design entitled "flash mx game design demystified" and on pg. 111 under the heading <b>Line-Line collision Detection</b> the following formula is presented:

y=m*x+b

m = slope of the line
b = y-intercept ( spot where the line intersects the y-axis )

can anyone tell me what this equation means and how it relates to line line collisions and point me to some kind of web page that will explain this in comprehensive detail?

P.S I have really got to get this because all this maths stuff with games is really giving me a headache.

I Know The Line Number. I Need The Last Char Index Number Of The Line.
Hi,

I have a multiline wrap textbox which is dynamic and has a variable assigned to it. I am importing text into this textbox. If the amount of text exceeds the height size of the textbox I want to split the text into two parts, so the part which exceeds the textbox ( the text which is not visible unless you scroll down) will be moved into another textbox located below the first textbox.

I know how to get the location of the last visible line in the textbox. I simply use

LastVisibleLine=MyTextbox.bottomScroll;

Now I have the location of the last visible line so my question is:

How can I get the location of the last character in the last visible line in the textfield?

Is it possible to count the lines in a textfield when the text is wraped. I've tried to count "
" and "
" and they don't detect the wrapping.
( Wrap: When the textfield detects if a line has reached the width of the texfield it automatically breaks the line so it will fit the textfield. )

Thank you.